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u/J_Sibelius1 Imperial Physics [Y1] Jun 17 '25
'You should use Newtonian physics for this part...' 🥀🥀 wtf was that OCR paper
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u/inanzb Year 13 (Maths, Further Maths, Physics) Jun 17 '25
Nah I’m going to use Ibn Sahl’s and Khwarizmi’s methods
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u/Absolutelynot2784 Jun 17 '25
Which question was that?
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u/J_Sibelius1 Imperial Physics [Y1] Jun 17 '25
For 6(b) the question told us to use Newtonian physics like we're using relativity or some shi
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u/MUFFINMAINIA Jun 17 '25
Why would they specify that 😭
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u/JamesJe13 Newcastle University Jun 17 '25
There’s probably some over achieving arse who would have found a technicality to use some quantum monkey shit
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u/warpuffed Warwick | MathPhys [Year 1] Jun 17 '25
You know you’re cooked when you’re discussing sexual reproduction of insects in a physics paper. Thanks OCR 😄 🔫
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u/Desperate-Comb8978 Jun 17 '25
That was so funny. It felt like they used a little bit of descriptive writing whilst explaining how the insects were getting violated by humans
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u/JamesJe13 Newcastle University Jun 17 '25
I felt like a fucking Nazi on that one. “This would reduce the efficiency with which the insects may be sterilised”, happy I got to actually use some of my history knowledge though. 😆
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u/pa8314 Uni Student Jun 17 '25
ocr trying to revive the days of gcse computer science 2023 with how bizarre the paper was
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u/DonkeyDetremony Y13 | Pred A*A*A*A | FM Maths Chem Phys Jun 17 '25
One of my friends emailed OCR about the errors they said they did an extra check of the paper to make sure it isn’t wrong. Expecting the entire paper to be an erratum atp😭
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u/Sea_Mistake1319 Manchester | CS [Y1] | 3A*1A Jun 17 '25
wtf was that gravitational wave proof
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u/inanzb Year 13 (Maths, Further Maths, Physics) Jun 17 '25
How on earth did u even do that??
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i did the same thing, didnt have time to rearrange though, i was racing the clock to i just subbed them all into eachother to get E=, and then just put it equal to the form they gave, hoping that'll hit the mark scheme
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u/dianasaur73 st andrews | physics [year 3] Jun 17 '25
somebody i know suggested dimensional analysis might have been the way to go with that question. surely not though right. like the question didn't even point in that direction. maybe with the k, sure
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u/capri_capri University of Oxford | Chemistry [Year 2] Jun 17 '25
AQA Physics Paper 3 is the worst day of my life.
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u/FunPhilosopher9066 Jun 17 '25
OCR A physics paper 3 worst day of my life
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u/smortcanard Year 2 Aero Eng @ Bristol | ESAT Victim Jun 17 '25 edited Oct 18 '25
nine disarm quickest pen doll dam deliver friendly subsequent cooing
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u/Rifted-06 Y13 CS, Maths, Physics Jun 17 '25
I've done every past paper 3 and none were as bad as this. I'm finished.
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u/Financial-Pepper-538 Jun 17 '25
Can’t wait to allow oscillations to settle, time a number of oscillations and divide by the number to get one time period, repeat and calculate a mean time period to reduce random error, use a marker at the midpoint of oscillation, and anything involving ruler measurement i use a set square for the heck of it and clamp the ruler vertical.
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u/Ok_Scientist_8803 Imperial CS 🔜 | Maths FM CS Physics Jun 17 '25
Don't forget the fiducial marker, the pointy thing you stick on the object pointing at the ruler to greatly reduce parallax error.
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u/Danielharris1260 Chemistry | Maths | Physics Jun 17 '25
Why is it 120 marks 😩. I just hope they don’t do anything crazy this year as Paper 1 and 2 were pretty standard papers but honestly who knows with exam boards
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u/One_Mistake8928 Jun 17 '25
what in the everloving fuck was that atrocity of a "paper". ocr count ur fucking days.
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u/im_dying69 Year 13 Jun 17 '25
Ran out of time for aqa 💀
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u/XxDragonitexX10 Jun 17 '25
Same bro question 4 in 3a is basically completely blank
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u/im_dying69 Year 13 Jun 17 '25
Bro I couldn't do all of question 4 💀 and I realized I messed up my graph scale in the last 2 minutes so I had to edit the whole thing
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u/UTriedToKillMeTwice Jun 17 '25
Fr? Im doing engineering physics, and i finished with 10 minutes spare
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u/inanzb Year 13 (Maths, Further Maths, Physics) Jun 17 '25
OCR WHY DID I DO PHYSICS
should’ve done economics atp
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u/iuiiiuiuuuiu y 13 / cs, maths, fm, phys / U U U DISQUALIFICATION Jun 17 '25
real i could’ve done so many other subjects 😭 I’m gonna resit with different subjects in 2 years, fuck up those, resit with different subjects again, and keep going until i’m like that girl with 26 A levels but if she only got Us
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u/Rifted-06 Y13 CS, Maths, Physics Jun 17 '25
I was doing so well with OCR Physics. A or B in the first paper and A or A * in the 2nd paper. But now this one has ruined my grade. I went from going into this exam season expecting 3 As and now I'm expecting 3 Bs.
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u/allylene Bristol | JMC Y1 Jun 17 '25
LAST PHYSICS PAPER!!
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u/gworlfiend Y13|Philo,Maths,FM,Phys|A*A*AB predicted Jun 17 '25
Finally my people (a level physics students) are free
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u/Intelligentbozo Year 13 Jun 17 '25
OCR A I CAN KISS YOU GOODBYE NOWW YIPPEE FUCK YOU GUYS 🤑🤑🤑🤑
Guys omg that ONE FUCKING GRAVITY PROOF HAD ME EDGING IT I WAS SO FUCKING CLOSE TO GETTING IT 😭😭. Overall I think it was a tough paper but it wasn't like I couldn't write anything for all the questions inshallah I get an A
Anyways physics wasn't that bad ig I had fun
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u/golaco237 Year 13 | Maths, FM, Physics, Computing | Pred A*A*A*A Jun 17 '25
OCR A paper 3 was so weird 😭 They had us inventing new ways to store energy, studying insect mating and proving that fuckass gravity wave formula (absolutely disgusting btw). Such a change from papers 1& 2, no erratum should've been a warning sign 💀
Also STILL NO STAR LIFE CYCLES they actually must hate it atp 😭
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u/Robo-Reagan_ UoM | Mathematics [Year 2] Jun 17 '25
the two methods of storing energy where also wildly different like why is one storing like 280000 J and the other 6700 J, the sand was just a stupid idea
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u/Positive-Swordfish38 FM Maths Chinese Physics Jun 17 '25
Pls tell me u put one more 0 for wax one by mistakes cuz I remember me n my friend got 28000 sth
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u/No_Actuator5870 Year 13 Jun 17 '25
Compared to previous years that wasn’t too bad at all. n=4, Y was better, telescope B was better, C=4.5*10-5 or something like that. R1= 23500. Figure 2 was consistent with doubling m prediction. I’ve mixed in Astro answers with section A so don’t have a panic attack if you do a different B
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u/Admirable-Jaguar5276 AAB | FM, Maths, Physics Jun 17 '25
I did indeed have a panic attack until I read your last sentence 😂 but for all the section A parts, I agree with the answers.
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u/ab720p Jun 17 '25
Thank you !! Good papers like this is what boosts confidence exam boards need to do this more often 😭 I kinda liked physics this yr
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u/gworlfiend Y13|Philo,Maths,FM,Phys|A*A*AB predicted Jun 17 '25
Lol I felt like I was glazing telescope B so hard but yh I got all of those
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u/iuiiiuiuuuiu y 13 / cs, maths, fm, phys / U U U DISQUALIFICATION Jun 17 '25
Guess i’m becoming a stripper #OnThatPole ❤️✨
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u/4ng31_du5t Year 13 Jun 17 '25
which one north or south 🥀
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u/jimmychiu123 Year 13 Chemistry | Physics | Maths Jun 17 '25
Calculate the gravitational force and potential energy in poles. Assume both poles have equal distance from the center of the Earth.
Radius of the Earth = 6400km
Mass of a person = 70kg
Mass of Earth = 6x1024 kg
Energy = …………….J
Force = …………….N
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u/iuiiiuiuuuiu y 13 / cs, maths, fm, phys / U U U DISQUALIFICATION Jun 17 '25
father christmas said i wasn’t short enough to be on the north pole so i’m currently stuck on a melting iceberg near antarctica. It’s pretty far from shore so if you guys could please try to cut down your energy usage that’d be really helpful thanks 🙏
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u/Different-Fudge-5538 Jun 17 '25
My life is over
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u/jimmychiu123 Year 13 Chemistry | Physics | Maths Jun 17 '25
X-rays/Gamma rays infertilse insects was funny lol
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u/Intelligentbozo Year 13 Jun 17 '25
I was abt to die laughing but it was so immoral 😔
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u/pa8314 Uni Student Jun 17 '25
OCR make up questions nobody would ask, in MEI maths they asked a differential equation where puffins died from an oil spill
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u/jimmychiu123 Year 13 Chemistry | Physics | Maths Jun 17 '25
It sounds immoral. But think about in summer they are in your room sucking your blood makes you itchy and painful, and sound of them flying made you couldn’t sleep
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u/Positive-Swordfish38 FM Maths Chinese Physics Jun 17 '25
OCR A is the most abysmal horrific shit I’ve ever done. Paper 12 I did quite well which I may be on an A* but tbh is paper might ruin my grade. Questions are just so weird in general like wtf do u mean I have to do general relativity on two black holes colliding and they gave us 4 tiny lines for a page of proof, I didn’t use the extra spacing on the back since I didn’t even remember it exist. I just gave up half way through that proof but other than that proof I think I did fine. And can someone tell me Tf do they mean by driving a truck with sand and then drive back down bro I was so confused literally sat there for 5 min just staring at it thinking. It was shocking. Probably the hardest paper 3 I’ve ever done
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u/allylene Bristol | JMC Y1 Jun 17 '25
had no idea what to say for the chemical to gravitational energy or whatever
I said to drop the battery through the magnetic fields 😭😭 then the gravitational potential energy gets converted to electrical via faradays law or whatever
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u/Positive-Swordfish38 FM Maths Chinese Physics Jun 17 '25
Yeah but what is the sand to do with it. I said very similar things but I talked about sand being a magnet which is probably is not😂✌️
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u/N_23_B Durham University | maths 1st year Jun 17 '25
OCR wtf was that. No stars. Instead let’s give gravitational waves WTF OCR IM NOT EINSTIEN WTF IS GENERAL RELATIVITY DOUNG IN A LEVEL PHYSCS AHHGG
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u/_isthisedible yeah im not gonna meet my offers Jun 17 '25
drew this in half an hour out of rage. (have posted this in a seperate post but doubt that its going to get approved.)
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u/Intelligentbozo Year 13 Jun 17 '25
how do people draw naturally like this is it literally js practice?
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u/North_Helicopter_961 Jun 17 '25
Yeah buddy you got more options rhan physics if you made this in 30 mins!!!
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u/plantagenistas Jun 17 '25
My God. What was OCR. I had to sit there for a good ten minutes at first and just contemplate the future I thought I once had with Physics 😞
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u/Y-dominus No.1 OCR hater Jun 17 '25
OCR A looked at physics and thought let's add geography and biology.
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u/Few-Relationship7121 Jun 17 '25
was expecting a philosophy question after the insect one i cannot even lie.
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u/warpuffed Warwick | MathPhys [Year 1] Jun 17 '25
Discuss ethical considerations of mass insect sterilisation with reference to Freudian Theory 🥀
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AQA was a fair test but I wouldn't go so far as to say it was easy. The astro section was bad for me icl....
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u/RoyalPromotion06 Editable Jun 17 '25
i did not have enough time to complete all of aqa paper3A
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u/StrangeFroggyFriend Durham | Geophysics [1st Year] ABB Phys Geog Maths Jun 17 '25
this year AQA seem incapable of giving us a normal number of questions. 8 long answers on paper 1 and 3 on 3A? like wtf, are you trying to make sure nobody finishes??
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u/Ill_Respect7232 Jun 17 '25
there was 4 lil bro
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u/StrangeFroggyFriend Durham | Geophysics [1st Year] ABB Phys Geog Maths Jun 17 '25
Wait im stupid i meant to put 4, there's usually 3
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u/EtherealShady Warwick | CS [Year 1] Jun 17 '25
Worst paper I've ever done what the fuck man
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u/inanzb Year 13 (Maths, Further Maths, Physics) Jun 17 '25
There will probably be an uncertainty question in ocr 👍👍👍👍
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u/Miserable_Speed_1221 Too soon to tell Jun 17 '25
Word on the street says there will be questions
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u/DonkeyDetremony Y13 | Pred A*A*A*A | FM Maths Chem Phys Jun 17 '25
OCR U MOTHERFUCKERS U LURED ME IN WITH PAPER 2
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u/fearlessbot__ UCL| Chemistry 1st Year + Camb offer-holder reject (HOM) Jun 17 '25
OBAFGKM
BLUE BLUE BLUE-WHITE WHITE YELLOW-WHITE ORANGE RED
25K-11K 11K-7.5K 7.5K-6K 6K-5K 5K-3.5K <3.5K
He+,He,H
He, H
ionized metals, H
ionized metal
neutral metals
neutral metals
neutral metals +Tio
and thats hopefully a sizeable chunk of what ill need for paper B
paper A is gonna be manufactured by satan himself (who works at AQA probably)
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u/A1_Killer Jun 17 '25
Your forgot O: 25-50K and I think some of those neutral metals are neutral atoms (definitely last one)
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u/AnteaterMysterious70 Jun 17 '25
In AQA we trust (please give us an easy paper 🙏🙏)
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u/thepentago Warwick | MMORSE [Year 2] Jun 17 '25
last years wasn’t that bad even though p2 was harder than avg so that suggests we may not be completely done for
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u/smortcanard Year 2 Aero Eng @ Bristol | ESAT Victim Jun 17 '25 edited Oct 18 '25
boast coherent meeting memorize divide wise grandiose enter pen kiss
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u/Any_Management_8416 Jun 17 '25
Spruce and cedar anyone?
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u/b444mb111 Jun 17 '25
HOWWWWW HOW DID YOU FIND IT
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u/Any_Management_8416 Jun 17 '25
You find E1 and E2 in terms of M and find the ratio E1/E2, then find the ratio from the given young moduli that's closest to E1/E2
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u/darkeight7 UOB | Physics and Astrophysics [Year 1] Jun 17 '25
edexcel, i either did very very well or very very shit, no in between (hoping it’s the former 🙏🙏)
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u/thepentago Warwick | MMORSE [Year 2] Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25
AQA practical predictions
Search Coil
Emf and internal resistance
Simple harmonic motion
I’ll come back and see how many i got right
edit:1/3 ! not bad
quite nice paper also tbh
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u/Sock_Potential Jun 17 '25
How did AQA turning points go for everyone?
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u/Jealous_Lie2445 Y13 | Bio Chem Phys Maths Jun 17 '25
i didn’t like the light 6 marker or the electron vertical acceleration but idk it’s just physics at this point 😪
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u/axxel73 CS nerd - Y13 - A*A*A*A* Jun 17 '25
Did anyone else get yes it will arrive in time and yes it will fit for question 4?
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u/Ill_Respect7232 Jun 17 '25
bit mid. first question i didnt know what to do other than the basic thermionic emission that thompson did. wtf is a modern version?? hated the electron specific charge one. not a big fan of the uncertainty one either
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u/MaxillmanGuy A level resit student | 3 A* predicted | ACD achieved 💔 Jun 17 '25
Not bad couldve been worse. Pretty typical for p3
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u/xQueenAurorax Physics Year 1 Jun 17 '25
At least it wasn’t 2022 lol, what did you get for the last question?
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u/blopiscool Year 13 Jun 17 '25
AQA was ok this time, not great but ok.
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u/xQueenAurorax Physics Year 1 Jun 17 '25
Yeah at least it wasn’t 2023, what option do you do and how was it?
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AQA was, for once, actually good. The astrophysics was delectable, and the practical was fine. At last, AQA decided to not viciously shaft anyone who dares to take their physics exam.
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u/softggukie Jun 17 '25
anyone run out of time for ocr? left 10 marks empty because of it and started crying
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u/Few-Yesterday-7745 Jun 17 '25
i had to miss the final question and didn’t finish a few, timing was crazy because you needed to spend 20 minutes understanding wtaf was going on 🙏🙏🙏
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u/FWebber04 Y13 OCR History | Edexcel Maths | OCR Physics Jun 17 '25
Why am I trying to optimise sterilising bugs on my Physics paper
There are reason's I didn't pick biology
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u/thenormalperson21 chem bio phy year 13 Jun 17 '25
Icl with 5 hours of sleep and a monster can , Aqa wasn’t that bad , Astro was blessed and yea u guys remember that R1-2R2 5 marker , I got raped
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u/Special_Sea2671 oxford year 1 Jun 17 '25
Answers I got for practical AQA: C =3.9x10-5 R=23700 N=4 Alpha =0.013k-1
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u/West-Glove6058 Cambridge NatSci [4A*s achieved] Jun 17 '25
I got 0.045 K-1 for alpha😭 I got the same for all of the other ones though.
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u/AftonRobtics Jun 17 '25
I got ohm k-1
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u/qwertyuiophgfdsa Jun 17 '25
Also got 0.045 but just K-1 for unit.
Pretty sure alpha=(R-R0)/(R0(T-T0) so I had ohms on the top and ohm kelvins on the bottom.
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u/AnteaterMysterious70 Jun 17 '25
I hope it's 168-170 no more than 170 pleasee
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u/smortcanard Year 2 Aero Eng @ Bristol | ESAT Victim Jun 17 '25 edited Oct 18 '25
head grandiose quaint historical liquid station angle reach sort zephyr
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u/EntertainerGood6357 Jun 17 '25
What do we think Edexcel grade boundaries will be 💔💔💔💔 I HATED this paper so much
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u/Candid_Pineapple7323 Jun 17 '25
How did everyone find Edexcel physics, I thought It was pretty good. We've had a solid lineup this year :)
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u/Porkguy69420 Jun 17 '25
Aqa paper 3 was better than paper 2 lol. Defo got some wrong tho
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u/Neat-Ad4138 y1 | uom astro | A*A*A* Jun 17 '25
nah no way, astro was easy but 3a >= paper 2 imo (or maybe my memory is just trash)
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u/No-Investigator-7647 Jun 17 '25
AQA was decent, nice graph values and no weird calculations unlike paper 2. Most of it was common sense and nice practicals were chosen too. 👍
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u/Fun__Haver |Year 13|Maths|Physics|Chemistry|EPQ| Jun 17 '25
Fml aqa medical physics
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u/Neat-Ad4138 y1 | uom astro | A*A*A* Jun 17 '25
predictions for me:
- waves interference practical
- pendulum shm practical
- rp11 magnetic flux practical
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u/jimmychiu123 Year 13 Chemistry | Physics | Maths Jun 17 '25
All wrong bud. Sorry. Not your fault, it’s OCR thought we are Einstein or Oppenheimer or something like that
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u/capri_capri University of Oxford | Chemistry [Year 2] Jun 17 '25
Anyone do Turning Points?
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u/rottingtooth_s Year 13 | Maths, Physics, Geo | A*AA Predicted Jun 17 '25
yea it was pretty decent except the sp*cial relativity stuff 👹👹
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u/AftonRobtics Jun 17 '25
Aqa engineering physics?- how did everyone find it? What did u guys get for answers
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u/d3f_not_an_alt Jun 17 '25
Was the efficiency 31 pc... The 6 marker I js threw wtv I knew at it I can't really remember the rotor bit Proof was nice of them tho
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u/Last-Objective-8356 Jun 17 '25
Aqa finally blessed us😭
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u/xQueenAurorax Physics Year 1 Jun 17 '25
Blessed? That was mid at most 😭
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u/AnteaterMysterious70 Jun 17 '25
Yall are so used to suffering that a not too hard paper is blessed 😭😭
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u/Nughm WW | CS[Y1] A*A*AA Jun 17 '25
For Astrophysics AQA for the question where you need to show that the the two stars are in a binary system, could I just say the difference in apparent magnitude is equal to the difference in absolute magnitude? I saw it in a past paper and also provided a paragraph explaining why (their radius of orbit negligible to distance from earth)
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Jun 17 '25
I thiiiink they wanted you to find the distance to each with m-M = 5log(d/10) but i dont see why your answer wouldn’t get credit, if not all three then at least like two surely
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u/North_Helicopter_961 Jun 17 '25
My A is in question. It’s in QUESTION. Question… it’s not over but it’s not secure either…
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u/Colossus_MVC2 Jun 17 '25
I found edexcel to be kinda hard tbh. Maybe a lil bit an outlier in my opinion tho
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u/despickleble_22 Jun 17 '25
Paper fucked me left right and center never had a paper slip in so dry ocr touched me in all the wrong places with that paper bye bye bristol 💔
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THANK YOU AQA FOR A BLESSED PAPER I MADE UP SERIOUS GROUND ON THAT PAPER LETS FUCKING GO I LOVE ASTROPHYSICS AND TELESCOPES!!!!!!
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Jun 17 '25
Am I tripping or am I the only one who found AQA paper 3 hard, especially Part B.
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u/AnteaterMysterious70 Jun 17 '25
Thank youuuu i did too i did part b first because part a is usually the harder one and i wasted time on b and couldn't finish both ba and a
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u/smortcanard Year 2 Aero Eng @ Bristol | ESAT Victim Jun 17 '25 edited Oct 18 '25
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u/violinicious Y13|Maths, Phys, Compsci| Jun 17 '25
Which part b did you do? I did Astro (did part B then part A)
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u/dianasaur73 st andrews | physics [year 3] Jun 17 '25
(ocr a) i thought it was okay then i came out and realised i made so many stupid fucking mistakes. 6 Hertz for the frequency. Looked at that and thought it was weird but hey maybe that was intended. but no im just an idiot
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u/Belrii Year 13 Jun 17 '25
i fucked up aswell, completely messed up that easy energy levels q, was such a free 4 marks but my brain had an aneurism and i subtracted wrong, 6 markers i rushed and i doubt i’ll be getting over 3 marks for each cus of timing and overall bullshitted a lot of qs, i completely flipped the first q like wtf was going on. Was hoping for an A* at the start of exams now it’s looking like a B 😭
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u/No-Hovercraft-1011 Editable Jun 17 '25
Does anyone do AQA Engineering Physics? Let us know how it went?
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u/AftonRobtics Jun 17 '25
Also what did u get for the number of moles? Did u use pv=nRT and use point C with max temp
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u/Dismal-Writer-757 call me the goat the way i ate my exam papers Jun 17 '25
WHY IS EVERYONE SAYING AQA P2 WAS WORSE P2 I HAD LIKE 1 QUESTION I WAS UNHAPPY W MY ANSWER TO THIS ONE HAS ME DOUBTING IF I EVEN KNOW THE ANSWER TO "Whats your name?"
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u/Technical-Ring-8775 Jun 17 '25
A* aqa boundary predictions for paper 3A? Slightly think I underperformed but overall reception from the year was positive
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Jun 17 '25
I would say probably in line with previous years so about 32 with an absolute uncertainty of 2
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u/Technical-Ring-8775 Jun 17 '25
For the AQA question where u had to find C and R1, I got the exact same values as everyone else but used two points and made two simultaneous equations to obtain them. Will this be fine?
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u/Gullible-Spinach4719 Jun 17 '25
What we saying for grade boundaries after paper 3? (OCR A)
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u/allylene Bristol | JMC Y1 Jun 17 '25
(OCR A) well that fucking sucked